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Sancti Spiritus (1526-1529), an Ephemeral but Diagnostic Spanish Fort (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The arrival of the first European settlers in the Southern Cone of America was followed by a settlement policy with marked military characteristics. The forts located along the waterways were the strategic enclaves from which the conquest of the La Plata Basin was developed. These forts were also the...